Fallen teen queen Lindsay Lohan has launched a comeback by stripping down to her birthday suit to recreate the naked last photos of Hollywood bombshell Marilyn Monroe.

In the issue of New York magazine on sale yesterday, the troubled 21-year-old Lohan poses nude for photographer Bert Stern in a recreation of Monroe's legendary final photo shoot, done by the same photographer shortly before she died in August 1962.

The "Mean Girls" star insisted she was "comfortable" with taking it all off for the cameras -- although she confessed to doing 250 sit-ups the night before the pictures were taken.

"I was comfortable with it... I didn't have to put much thought into it. I mean, Bert Stern? Doing a Marilyn shoot? It's really an honour," she said.

There was also no avoiding the parallels between Monroe's tragic fate -- dead from an accidental overdose of prescription medicines -- and that, recently, of Heath Ledger's.

"They are both prime examples of what this industry can do to someone," said Lohan.

The actress, who has been in and out of rehab after two arrests last year on drunken driving and cocaine charges, said she didn't know why the industry wreaked such havoc on some stars, adding, "I sure as hell wouldn't let it happen to me."

Stern said he thought the photo shoot would be good for the young actress, giving her the chance to portray herself as a grown-up.